XSEED localizing latest Harvest Moon as Story of Seasons

XSEED Games is localizing the latest Harvest Moon game, known as Harvest Moon: Tsunagaru Shin Tenchi in Japan, as Story of Seasons. That’s just Story of Seasons—not Harvest Moon: Story of Seasons.

Since XSEED, a subsidiary of Marvelous AQL, is taking over localization duties, it can’t use the Harvest Moon name, which is owned by Natsume, who has localized the series up until now. In Japan, the series is known as Bokujo Monogatari (Farm Story), thus the different owner of the English name. 

Story of Seasons, due out this year in North America, will let players fully customize their own character and become the newest resident of Oak Tree Town, a small settlement filled with “promises of new beginnings” and “hard work and significant relationships.” Players will tend to crops, become an everyday farmer, and amass the resources necessary to customize and expand their farms.

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And Natsume USA with it, it seems. What a strange time to be alive...

No-one cares about Harvest Moon :(

Pretty amusing situation though. Poor Natsume. All I know them for is Harvest Moon.

:(

They used to publish Rune Factory, too, but Marvelous ganked that away from them with RF4. River King was probably their third biggest, and that is also a Marvelous property (in addition to being seemingly defunct).

But yeah, Harvest Moon and that purple Natsume logo just go together. And I don't know if I can handle Harvest Moon not being called "Harvest Moon" anymore.

I wonder if it would be possible/worthwhile for Natsume to start making their own Harvest Moon games now? I'd have thought Marvelous would have approached them about acquiring the rights to the name. Hmmm!

How about Harvest Food instead of Harvest Moon?

How about Harvest Waifus?

Why is XSEED taking over the localizations from now on? Sorry, havent looked much into this yet :p

No clue what Waifu is so I googled it...

Did you write the urban dictionary definition?

"You treat your Waifu with the utmost respect and courtesy and most refuse to even fap to their beloved, seeing the act as an insult to the non-existent woman they have committed themselves to."

Just seems like your writing style.

Harvest Coon!

They had better not be dead. I would love to see what they can do with the 8th gen hardware and see what they come up with. Maybe they can rename the franchise. At least they should make a Rune Factory for the WiiU at some point.

Marvelous merged with AQL (parent company of XSEED) a few years ago, so Natsume has outlived its usefulness.